Proverbs 2:4-22 Parallel Bible Translations

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4 If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 Then will you understand the fear of the LORD; the knowledge of God you will find; then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He has success in store for the upright, is the shield of those who walk honestly, he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 Guarding the paths of justice, protecting the way of his faithful ones, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right and just, what is fair, every good path; Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be at home in your soul, for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12 Saving you from the way of the wicked, from those whose speech is perverse. delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
13 From those who have left the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
14 Who delight in doing evil and celebrate perversity; who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15 Whose ways are crooked, whose paths are devious; men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words, So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 One who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18 For her path sinks down to death, and her footsteps lead to the shades. for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19 None who enter there come back, or gain the paths of life. none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20 Thus you may walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just. So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will dwell in the land, people of integrity will remain in it; For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it. but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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